‘I just have to go with it’: Utah mother stays positive after quadruple amputation

PROVO, Utah - A Utah woman is in the hospital recovering after having both of her arms and legs amputated.

Tiffany King has a condition that required her to take a medication weakening her immune system.

When she came down with pneumonia in January, she went into a coma - and doctors gave her only a 15 percent chance to live.

King said she woke up one night in mid-January unable to breathe.

“The next thing I knew, I was in ICU and I was coming out of a coma,” she told KSTU.

She was diagnosed with pneumonia, which led to a blood infection. Doctors were forced to give her a medicine that took the blood flow away from her arms and legs. Even then, King was given a slim chance to survive.